API Management Zones

Question

Hi,

We have API Management with 3 zones.

From a DR perspective, is there a way of monitoring or getting informed that a zone is down? We need this so that we can take decisions based on the situation..

Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

MO-64 Thanks for posting your question in Microsoft Q&A. Based on my understanding, you are talking about availability zones in API Management not multi-region deployments.

When you enable zone redundancy, the gateway and control plane instances are replicated across the data centers in different zones (physically separated) and if a zone goes down, APIM will continue to handle requests from other zones as long as it is not a regional outage where all zones are affected.

With that said, the endpoint is same for all the zones in a region, and unfortunately, there is no monitoring available to notify if a zone is down. If you are interested in this feature, feel free to submit to our product team via https://aka.ms/apimwish and others with similar interests can upvote too. I hope this helps and let me know if you have any other questions.

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